Politics

The Bharatiya Janata Party has released its first list of 182 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. PM Narendra Modi will contest from Varanasi, while BJP president Amit Shah will contest from Gandhinagar. Union home minister Rajnath Singh will contest the elections from Lucknow with Nitin Gadkari contesting from Nagpur.........

28-year-old Gedela Gyana Sagar, known as Chaitanya, son of an RTC bus conductor (retired) and a student of CA final year, is contesting the present elections on the Jana Sena Party ticket from Pathapatnam Assembly constituency.........

The BJP-led government in Goa proved its majority winning the floor test in the state assembly. The Pramod Sawant government got the support of 20 MLAs in the assembly, whose strength has reduced from 40 to 36.........

In a surprising turn of events, Bahujan Samaj Party chief declares that she will not be contesting in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. "We have a strong alliance with RLD (Rashtriya Lok Dal) and Samajwadi Party to defeat the BJP.........

In a significant move, the BJP has decided to drop all 10 sitting MPs in Chhattisgarh, a state where the party suffered drubbing in the 2018 Assembly polls. The party has decided to field new candidates with fresh vigour.........

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suffered a major setback in Arunachal Pradesh ahead of the Lok Sabha elections 2019, with 18 of its leaders calling it quits and joining Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma’s National Peoples Party (NPP).........

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India’s institutions have been the biggest casualty of dynastic politics. Modi said Indians were tired of the country being in the “Fragile Five”, where corruption, cronyism and nepotism made headlines instead of anything positive. ........

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lashed out at the BJP for questioning her religion and said neither she nor the people of the state need to learn the meaning of 'communal harmony' from the "divisive BJP". She even challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah to see who can chant mantras better.
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A two-judge bench of Justices RS Jha and Sanjay Dwivedi ordered that the counselling for MBBS seats, which gets underway from March 25, would be undertaken as per the 14 per cent reservation granted to OBCs.........

Arunachal Pradesh is special to the Congress party, leader Rahul Gandhi said at an Itanagar rally, promising to restore the special category status to the state and others in the Northeast if voted to power.........

The Election Commission of India (ECI) issued the notification for the first phase of the Lok Sabha Elections 2019. Phase 1 will be held in 91 constituencies in 20 states and union territories. Polling will take place on April 11. The first phase involves all the 25 Lok Sabha constituencies of Andhra Pradesh and 17 from Telangana.........

Newly-sworn in Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant has said he will take forward the legacy of his predecessor Manohar Parrikar as he admitted he had a “big responsibility” before him. Sawant said he planned to focus on “human and infrastructure” development.........

Reports are emerging that the BJP-led coalition has two candidates in mind- Speaker Pramod Sawant and Health Minister Vishwajit Rane. Sawant is known to have been groomed by Parrikar himself but Rane reportedly has the support of Goa Forward and Independent MLAs.........

Actor Sumalatha Ambareesh announced that she will contest the elections from the Mandya Lok Sabha constituency as an Independent candidate. She will be taking on Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil, who is the JD(S) candidate.........

A Surat-based student Mehul Choksi has successfully completed his PhD thesis on Narendra Modi as the Chief Minister of Gujarat and Prime Minister of India. He submitted his research thesis on the topic "Leadership under Government - Case Study of Narendra Modi."........

In a clear message to the Congress party, BSP supremo Mayawati said that the BSP-SP alliance can alone defeat the BJP in the forthcoming general elections. She asserted that the Congress should feel free to contest in all 80 seats in UP.........

Congress formally staked claim to form the government in Goa, hours after state chief minister Manohar Parrikar passed away. Congress, the single largest opposition party in Goa assembly, wrote to Governor Mridula Sinha, the second time in 48 hours.........

The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), led by Raj Thackeray, has decided not to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. MNS may declare support to the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in the MNS rally on March 19.........

The BJP central leadership may send some leaders from the national capital to Goa today- in face of a persistent threat to its Manohar Parrikar government after the Congress wrote to the Governor demanding a chance to stake claim.........